Open AccessStatus and prospects of underground coal mining technology in Vietnam
Author(s) -
Thạch Ngọc Lê,
Xuan Nam BUI
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
inżynieria mineralna
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.215
H-Index - 9
ISSN - 1640-4920
DOI - 10.29227/im-2019-02-63
Subject(s) - coal , coal mining , mining engineering , sustainable development , current (fluid) , mining industry , underground mining (soft rock) , engineering , environmental science , waste management , political science , electrical engineering , law
Underground coal mining in Vietnam plays an important role tonot only the sustainable coal industry but also the energy and social securityin this country. Although the Vietnam coal industry has produced 35–45million tonnes of raw coal per annum in past ten years, a great volume ofcoal resources remains distributed in complex geo-mining conditions andmostly unmined. This paper presents a brief review of the current andpotential technologies for cutting coal and controlling roof in Vietnamunderground coal mines. From the review, it is concluded that there is anurgent demand on improvement of current technologies as well as oninvestigation for effective application of more advanced mining methodsinto the industry, especially for deep mining at Red River Delta—the largestcoal basin in Vietnam.